Show On nTY By L. L A. A Hollenbeck Uniformity In iu Judicial procedure and eve everything else eso seems to be the cry of a lot o of reformists and the legal profession has them too A lot lotof of bf kickers are m mad d because committees can cat block legislation and not allow everything to o pass Sometimes the checks s work bad an and sometimes good but we can stand standa ft n little ba bad work in order to keep out outa a lot of vicious stuff from th the tue law books that would male make civilization an unbearable j joke ke bl blame ne forbad for forbad bad had legislation Is often placed upon lawyers But lawyers disagree among themselves which is n. n a a good thing too for or that lis is what l e keeps ps th things in the balance A few hundred hundred hun hun- dred ye years years rs' rs ago there w was s tine tile S 'S same crusade against lawyers lawyers' in iii England and a parliament nt was elected I Without without with With- out a single lawyer and the other follows fellows had full swing and the result ie- ie sult suIt was that so many bad ad laws Jaws were passed that it took tool Dl many ny years for legislation to get Its bal balance again and that legislative body was called and is yet called the Fools P Parlia Parlia- ment When a really good law is blocked blocked blocke block block- e ed in congress or in a legislature Itis itIs it itis is not the lawyers that block it but organized wealth or organized industrial in industrial industrial in- in organizations s. s They are about on a par One checks check's the other so that both of them are compelled to behave fairly well A federation will tell a certain lot of or congressmen that if they dont don't vote so and so that the feder federation Uon will beat them at the next election and usually that federation will carry those congressmen men in their vest p pocket ckeL Also Is th the same is s true true with ith the big interests For a long time and no doubt to some extent now a large part of congressmen were under the pay of the saloon anti-saloon league No doubt that in the great fight against the power trust that some of the makers law-makers are under the pay of the power trust or itt itt- influenced influenced in in- by it directly or indirectly It is easy for a lawmaker to say that he lie is opposed to the government government government govern govern- ment going into private business That Is a general statement that most of us agree to readily But when the state inter-state commerce law lawand lawand and tha the public utilities laws Jaws have prevented destroyed competition competition destroyed d I natures nature's law of trade and business by forbidding any one to enter into II I co competition then it De nel necessary 1 sary for fot the gov to enter cuter a a competitive business occasionally forthe forthe for the purpose purpose of restoring natures nature a law Yell Well some of the lawyers are one one side sido and some on the other ether so are the tho other legislators Some Komo of or them are smart and others dont don't have an idea once a year while others others others oth oth- ers h haven't vent but put one i- i ia a and want to put something over on ona a a suffering public Le Legislation goes slow T That Thatis at Is is right is-right right Fight for tor wb when It it-Is it Is going slow we are not getting getting- hurt so bad But nut the are making us a lott lotof ot of trouble now a Y r |